# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/guillaume-courtet
# Generated: 2026-08-16T07:55:41.987Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/guillaume-courtet"
name: "Guillaume Courtet"
slug: "guillaume-courtet"
description: "Guillaume Courtet, O.P. (1589–1637) was a French Dominican friar, Catholic priest, and missionary. One of the first Frenchman to have visited Japan, he died as a martyr by beheading in Nagasaki at the hands of the Tokugawa Shogunate on Michaelmas Day 1637 after three days continuous torture. He was canonised by Pope John Paul II in 1987 as one of the 16 Martyrs of Japan. He is celebrated annually on the September 28th as one of the 16 and on November 6th as one of the Thomasian Martyrs."
tagline: "French missionary"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Courtet20_01_07.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
birthDate: "1589"
deathDate: "1637"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.66
  momentum:             9.416726063197908
  historical:           5.943341333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Guillaume_Courtet"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%85_%D9%83%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AA%D8%AA"
    title: "جيوم كورتت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillaume_Courtet"
    title: "Guillaume Courtet"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillaume_Courtet"
    title: "Guillaume Courtet"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Courtet"
    title: "Wilhelm Courtet"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Courtet"
    title: "William Courtet"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/Guglielmo_Courtet"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3119773"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump